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Unique attachments for Obsidian

Renames attachments in your vault to unique names based on the hash of their file content, preventing filename conflicts and duplicates.

Best For

power usersresearchersacademicsstudentswriters

Key Use Cases

  • Organizing attachments in a large vault
  • Ensuring unique filenames after importing files from multiple sources
  • Cleaning up messy attachment names

Pros

  • Prevents filename collisions and duplicates
  • Uses content hashing for true uniqueness
  • Simple and automated process

Limitations

  • May break internal links if the plugin does not update references
  • Renames files even when already unique, potentially causing unnecessary changes

Tags

attachmentsrenamehashdeduplicationfile-management

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